Impact of Robotics in Employment and Labour Market

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What is the overall argument / position of your report?
Robotics is an interdisciplinary branch of science and engineering that deals
with the design, operation, construction and use of computer systems for
information processing, control and sensory feedback. Robotics is a scientific
study for developing machines that can replicate or substitute human actions.
The topic of the present study involves the technology used in robotics and the
various field of applications where robotics can be applied as a technology.
The scope of the study is to gain a deep understanding about the robotics
technology and gather new perspectives and in-depth knowledge regarding the
utilizations, applications and opportunities associated with robotics.
For instance, the application of robotics technology encompasses a wide range
of industries and areas including exploration, outer space, automotive
manufacturing or the car industry, the intelligent home, hospitals,
entertainment industry and disaster areas.
Summary of journal articles:
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your own words ensuring that you also use APA style/IEEE style in-text citations every
time you use the ideas or information from the research. Summarise the argument,
relevant evidence and examples that you will use to support your ideas.
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other research.
First journal article
G. Ballantyne, "Robotic surgery, telerobotic surgery, telepresence, and
telementoring",
Surgical Endoscopy, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 1389-1402, 2002.
Available: 10.1007/s00464-001-8283-7.
A surgical robotics arm is used for performing surgical procedures on patient’s
bodies. The robotics arm is attached to a column ring and independently
moves. It has multiple arm segments for added flexibility so that the segments
can provide additional level of freedom to the arm. Surgeons can place or
position the robotics arm into several configurations for accessing different
parts of the patient’s body. The arm is configurable and thus, physicians can
use the same arm for performing a wide range of surgical procedures.
Second journal article.
A. Trebi-Ollennu, "The InSight mission: Instrument deployment robotic
system",
Advances in Robotics & Automation, vol. 06, no. 02, 2017. Available:
10.4172/2168-9695-c1-007.
The InSight Mars Lander is an example of an application of robotics that
includes and IDS (Instrument Deployment System) and science payload with
auxiliary peripherals that are mounted on the Lander. A seismometer (SEIS), a
heat flow probe (HP3), a wind and thermal shield (WTS) and a precision

tracking system is included in InSight science payload in order to measure the
state and size of the mantle, core and crust of Mars. The HP3 and SEIS will be
released on the planetary surface that will allow the scientists to execute the
first comprehensive surface based geophysical investigation of the interior
structure of Mars.
Third journal article
M. Matarić, "Socially assistive robotics: Human augmentation versus
automation",
Science Robotics, vol. 2, no. 4, p. eaam5410, 2017. Available:
10.1126/scirobotics.aam5410.
SAS (Socially Assistive Robotics) develops socially interactive and intelligent
machines for providing assistance through social means. It can be compared
with the rehabilitation robotics except SAR is hands off and uses only
noncontact methods to coach, monitor and provide companionship for
supporting training and convalescence. It is used in autism behaviour therapy,
stroke rehabilitation, mental health care, Alzheimer’s, elderly care and
dementia. For instance, stroke rehabilitation coach offers movement exercises
through demonstrations and monitors the movement of the stroke patient.
Then it provides feedback on the quality of exercise.
Fourth journal article
C. Rascon and I. Meza, "Localization of sound sources in robotics: A
review",
Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 96, pp. 184-210, 2017.
Available: 10.1016/j.robot.2017.07.011.
The SSL (Sound Source Localization) estimates the position of sound sources. It
is useful in several situations including in a rescue scenario, mapping an
unknown acoustic environment, or locate a human speaker. The SSL estimates
two components in polar coordinates such as the distance estimation and the
direction of arrival estimation (in 2 dimensions). The techniques used in SSL
include learning based approaches (manifold learning and neural network),
subspace methods, beam forming based approaches, tracking techniques
(Kalman filters), and source clustering through time ad particle filtering.
Fifth journal article
J. Lee et al., "DART: Dynamic Animation and Robotics Toolkit",
The Journal of
Open Source Software, vol. 3, no. 22, p. 500, 2018. Available:
10.21105/joss.00500.
DART is a cross platform, collaborative and open source library, which provides
algorithms and data structures for dynamic and kinematic applications in
computer animation and robotics. For developers, DART provides full access to
the internal dynamic and kinematic quantities such as Coriolis, mass matrix,
transformational matrices and centrifugal forces. DART can feature multibody
dynamic simulations for motion and control planning.
Reference list using the IEEE (Engineering & IT):
G. Ballantyne, "Robotic surgery, telerobotic surgery, telepresence, and